Jesse James
After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.
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"With Ty Power and Hank Fonda in the saddle, there was no way this version of the James Brothers legend was going to paint them as bad guys. Less so since the courtly southerner Nunnally Johnson wrote and produced the yarn. In reality the James boys took to knocking off banks and trains after being at a loose end following Missouri's joining the losing side in the War Between the States. This was too painful a scab to pick in the Thirties, so Johnson gives the Jameses a more palatable enemy than Abe Lincoln: big bad railroad barons upsetting their ma. And he paints his outlaws with a popu..."
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After the two horses that were blindfolded and forced to go over a cliff were killed, a new rule was enforced and later endorsed by The Humane Society of America in which strict standards were created to protect animals. Productions that met the standards of the Humane Society were allowed to add "No Animals Were Harmed or Injured in the Production of this Film" to the end credits. Eventually all the studios agreed that films involving any animals must have present a representative of The Humane Society to ensure that all animals are treated humanely and given a safe environment in which to work.
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After railroad agents forcibly evict the James family from their family farm, Jesse and Frank turn to banditry for revenge.